I have to say that this is a rather atypical singing of the Divine Liturgy. It's all-male and "monodia" (unisone, no harmonies). I've never heard it sung that way in Slavic Churches before. If it were not for a peculiar mixture of Old Church Slavonic and vernacular Russian in the text that they are singing, I would never even guess that it's Slavic.

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Despite being the king of all chants, there unfortunately aren't a ton of recordings online of it. One good resource is the Rusyn Heritage Radio Program, the archives of which are online in mp3 format.

Open the link I posted above, go to "Alexander Govorov's Choir," and click on "Lord, by Thy strength... By Bortnyanskiy." I absolutely love it. To me, that's an epitome of Eastern Slavic church music, a brilliant piece of the 18-th century Ukrainian Rococo, the culture that gave the world St. Paisius Velichkovsky, St. John of Tobol'sk (the great-great-...great-uncle of St. John Maksymovych), and many others... And it's a Paschal hymn, too.

Here those who understand Russian may find, besides music, loads of audiobooks with the works of Russian fathers, conferences by Russian elders and professors (including one on Church Slavonic; courses by Fr. Alexander Men), the Bible in Russian, the Gospels and the Psalter chanted in Slavonic, morning and evening prayers etc. etc.

I don't think that all the chants in this video are Slavonic. However, I am pretty sure it starts off with a Slavonic chant, so I am putting it here. The chants and hymns were so gorgeous, I just had to put them somewhere.

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Here are a few links to some traditional Rusyn Lenten services and melodies from St. Michael's ACROD in Binghamton, NY. This is our first Great Lent since the repose of our long-time, beloved pastor Father Stephen, last year during bright week at the age of 92. He led the responses on these clips and his voice is missed and rings out clearly in these excerpts from April of 2009. Eternal Memory! Vicnaja Jemu Pamjat!

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Christos Voskres! Thank you Michal! I think that your post and the links that I have given below demonstrate that the beauty of Liturgical music is not lost when translated from Slavonic to the vernacular.

I wish that I could find an Orthodox link to liturgical hymns in the Slovak language, these are from the Greek Catholic Eparchy in Presov and they are well done.

Perhaps some other Slavic traditions might be able to post similar links as well.

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I have been taking the Liturgical texts from the OCA website and putting them to the Tones for the week in the Obikod style. I'm currently doing the "Lord, I Call", Litya & Aposticha verses for Great Vespers that have not already been put to music as well as any thing for the Divine Liturgy. I'd welcome feedback and am curious if anyone else would find this useful. Also this may already be being done by somebody and I'd hate to be duplicating work.

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